which you can only really hit if you are below or behind the chopper. If he is facing you you can't hit the weak point. So its a matter of pilot skill and awareness and not just mindless flying into the battle. I thinks its very good.
The rocket pods are useless but I prefer that over what we had.

Health is very good now imo. You can still tank a lot of shots but cant just fly into 6 people anymore expecting to kill everyone and just move on.
Have you tried the 50cal on the chopper? 4500 bp cost and you can one or two shot people and just wreck them. But you have to aim and hit them to do so (I know crazy isn't it??).
I agree the rocket pods are useless right now but the chopper with other weapons fells in a good state right now.
(so you can see that you can kill people very easily without the risk of dying)

After playing some rounds here are my 2 cents:
Gameplay
Lightning is weird sometimes. I like it in general as it looks good but sometimes it just bugs out and is overly bright/dark.
The voip is good enough to understand each other so thats nice.
Death screen is good.
Vehicle HUD is meh. I don't like those very inaccurate "stripes" which indicate where your shots are going. Most of the times its just a guessing game. From a sight I expect accurate indication not just general area of shots hitting.
Vehicles
The different optics are mostly bugged (can't see after turning them on)
Chopper:
Good
I like how much health the chopper has now. It really feels like a good balance now.
I played with the 50cal guns and it felt awesome. You have a lot of killing potential without the risk of dying but have to be skillfull with it (direct hits not just aim in the general direction and everything dies).
The price is also fairly good now.
Bad:
The rocket pods are totally useless against infantry. I havn't tried them against vehicles. I like it but I figure a lot of people don't like it. Also I don't want useless things in the game.
I don't know how to balance them properly without them being annyoing and op but with the other guns the chopper feels great right now.
Tanks:
Oh boy. Is the base speed intended for MBTs? Getting in your big booms now is very ineffective as you can't escape any airstrike anymore. Wanna use your 6k tank? Nice but you are dead as soon as you hear "enemy airstrike".
The only effective way I figured is by going cheap and spam. Just standart tank with a rcws nothing more. You don't take that much more damage but still can deal a lot of damage. And if you are getting killed inevitably by a airstrike you can get a new one fairly easy.
I rather have the tank speed tied to the weight. So if you take a cheap one without armor it's quite fast. If you want to be a beast who can eat a lot you are quite slow.
Infantry:
Doesn't feel like much has changed except maybe more horizontal recoil on some guns? (not sure on this one)
Spawn of Squadleader still bugs out sometimes and you spawn somewhere randomly.

It was some little things.
TTK. I tried to adjust after the change they made but I just couldn't. I thought I need to get used to it after months of playing like that but still I'm not fond of it.
The amount of strikespam made it way less fun.
Of course helicopter drone. Every match with it was just no fun anymore. Its not about balance it was/is just not fun to fight against.
I miss the bigger maps with more players. Was looking forward for some really big maps but instead they went smaller. (hope wz large comes back - a lot of unused awesome parts of the map are currently unused)
I can't play on smolensk because it's so blurrys and I don't like the imo asymetric/unbalanced gameplay of moscow and polyarny. So there is only warsaw and berlin left which are nice maps imo but after 500h+ just 2 maps gets stale very quickly.
So I'm currently just waiting and lurking in the forums and eagerly reading every patch notes until there is something which brings me back.

I don't know why it is a problem if you vaguely know where you got shot from. It is not specific at all and most players will move to attack the objective anyway. So it only impacts snipers a little bit (which isn't a bad thing). I don't know why everyone is so against this as it helps newcomers a lot and doesn't change anything for experienced players.

The devs should not listen to anything on this forum. It's their game. They should take inspiration and feedback out of it and consider themself what is good and bad. Just because many people say something doesn't make it good cause most of them have no clue.
Stopping the discussion to certain topics does not help at all in this regard.
Just because we are writing something doesn't force the devs to change the game.

Ah there he is. The one which charges in and tries to break up a nice discussion about different things and different opinions with "everything you say is dumb". Thank you for your nice contribution.
The guided airstrikes are quite fast atm so I don't think you should have much of a problem of having to laze for too long. And if the drone gets destroyed or the player killed the rocket should just stay on it's last designated spot. The drone could have some kind of red light emitting out of it as soon as you start lazering/calling in the strike so you have some counter play.
Repurposing it would be a nice idea. Not fully removing it but giving it a different role. The devs once said this game is more about the boots on the ground experince but still with elements like ground/air vehicles but just from infantry perspective. This would add some ground to air gameplay with staying true to their vision. But then again balancing would be not easy about it.